Evening Tales

Original tales from Norse mythology. Built on the sources, shaped by the tradition, told anew. Stories to share on late evenings by the fire, with a mead horn in hand or with children in your lap.

By the mead horn

Tales for adults. Told the way they ought to be told.

• Ratatoskr

  About the squirrel who ran up and down through Yggdrasil carrying insults between an eagle and a dragon, and who never delivered a message without making it worse.

• Mímir's Draught

  About the one who sits by the well and knows everything, and who cannot do a damn thing about it.

• Veðrfölnir

  About the hawk who sat between the eagle's eyes and saw the same thing as everyone else, only from a different angle.

• Níðhöggr's Teeth

  About the dragon who chewed on the roots every day, not because he had a purpose, but because he refused to stop.

• Hel's Half

  About the one who rules the dead no one wanted, and who knows it is the most honest realm of all.

• Ginnungagap

  About the void before everything, and how the world began with meltwater and a giant who sweated.

• Three Gods Fall

  About three gods who fell from Yggdrasil and asked a squirrel for help finding each other. The squirrel was happy to help. In his own way.

• Alvíss and the Dawn

  About the dwarf who knew everything, the god who for once used his brain, and the sun that solved the problem.

• Skaði's Feet

  About the giant's daughter who stormed into Asgard to avenge her father, and who had to choose a husband by looking at feet, and who chose wrong, and who married him anyway, and who in the end went home alone to her mountains.

• The Hostage

  About the war that ended with peace, the peace that ended with a severed head, and the god who looked like a leader despite never being one.

• Gefjon Plows Zealand

  About the goddess who conned a king out of a piece of Sweden and dragged it west into the sea.

• The Cauldron

  About Thor and Tyr who went to a giant's hall to fetch a cauldron, and about everything that went to hell along the way.

• Thjálfi's Steps

  About the boy who cracked a bone at dinner and paid with the rest of his life, and about what you see when you walk behind a god.

• Auðhumla

  About the cow who was there when it all began and who is never mentioned again, and about what happens to the one who is no longer needed.

By the hearth

Tales for children. The same stories, told with gentle hands.

• The Squirrel in the Tree

  About Ratatoskr, the little squirrel who ran up and down the world's biggest tree carrying messages between an eagle and a dragon.

• The Hawk in the Crown

  About Veðrfölnir, the little hawk who sat on the eagle's nose and saw things that not even the eagle could see.

• The Dragon Who Chewed

  About Níðhöggr, the dragon who chewed on roots every day and never wanted to admit why.

• The Bridge to Hel

  About Módguðr who guarded the bridge between the living and the dead, and who listened to every story.

• The Dwarf Who Knew Everything

  About a little dwarf who knew every name for everything, and about Thor who asked questions all night long.

• Whose Feet?

  About Skaði who got to choose one of the gods as her husband, even though she could only see their feet.

• The Head That Talked

  About the tall god who looked clever and his clever friend who became an advisor to Odin.

• The Old Woman and the Oxen

  About an old woman who received a gift from a king and turned it into an entire island.

• The Big Cauldron

  About Thor and Tyr who travelled far away to fetch an enormous cauldron for a friend, and about the grumpy giant who did not want to give it up.

• The Boy Who Went with Thor

  About Thjálfi, who did the dumbest thing you can do at a god's dinner table, and then got the best punishment in the world.

• The Cow Who Started Everything

  About Auðhumla, the very first cow in the whole world, who licked a god out of the ice and then wandered off.